The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-03-19

10 amend the act relative 70 the moor
poration of mining and smelling com
panies; to make an appropriation for
the State public school at Coldwater;
to provide for ceding to the United
States exclusive control over the site
for the public building at Detroit; to
enlarge and define the duties of the
State Board of Education; TO incorpor-
ate the village OF Gagetown, Tuscola
County.
STATE ITEMS.
-Diamondale Baptists are building
church.
The Jackson prison contains S02
prisoners.
The Remick postoflice has been
discontinued.
Florida strawberries are In the
market at Detroit.
An old settlers association was
formed at Sherman recently.
"A bonus of 800 has been raised
at Perrin for grain elevator.
Five mail carriers will be allowed
Saginaw City under free delivery.
"A Japanese student now attends
the sessions or the agricultural college
An East Saginaw lady is making
preparations TO go to the West Indies
as missionary.
About half the students az shs
State university report themselves Goa
iirmed Christians.
Last year $40, 000pounds Of butter
were turned out by the five creameries
in Genesee county.
- The annual meeting of the state
Spiritualists' society will occur at
Grand Rapids, March 25 to %.
The cotton mills at Jonesyille are
expected to resume operations soon,
after rest of nearly two years.
The discovery of a Mormon SUM-
day school within ten miles of East
saginaw has stirred up a hornets nest.
Mrs. Oaks of Wheatland has pared
l,450 bushels of apples this winter
besides attending TO her household
work.
There is small piece Of land not
far from Muskegon, says The Chronicle,
which Is in no town or county OF the
United States.
= The Hon. Edward Breitung, of
Negaunee, expired at midnight the
Sd inst, at Eastman, Ga. His estate
is valued at between 100000 and
$7000,000.
There are 324 postofiices in this
state in the fourth class whose salary
allowed Is less than $40 quarter, and
304 where il is between $40 and $40
per quarter.
A feroclous dog in Iosco county,
attacked two men, biting them saw
agely and nearly killing them. They
were finally rescued by a farm hand
with pitchfork.
Frederick u. Hess, son of the
postmaster at GAINESVILLE, has been ar
rested for robbing the mails. Losses
have been reported from that office for
the past six months.
AT Grand Rapids thirteen women,
the eldest of whom was 20 years old,
we're fined 800 each for violating the
liquor law in Muskegon, Of which
place they are residents.
An Adrian etectric-light company
Ia undergoing the novel experience OF
being boycotted by the saloonkeepers,
the majority of whom have ordered
their lights removed Immediately.
"A Tecumseh man, while drunk,
drove his team so furiously that one
horse broke its leg. He still continued
TO drive the crippled creature until
It fell with both front legs broken.
An Owasso casket company re-
ceived an order from Dubuque, Ia,
which had the following postscript:
"Put in one OF the caskets gallon Of
Old Crow and bill 10 embalming fluid"
AT Grand Rapids Mrs. Nettie Van
Antwerp took dose OF morphine 10
allay the pain with which she was suf-
fering. She evidently took too large
dose, as she was found dead In her bed
the next morning.
Considerable comment has been
made over the sudden and unexpected
withdrawal of Frederick N. Peck, man
aging editor of the Daily Gazette at
Kalamazoo, and the appearance again
at the helm, Of the owner, Postmaster
A. j. Shakespeare.
1t Is rumored that movement
by the Knights Of Labor is on foot to
build large manufacturing establish
ment at Lapeer to make carriages,
sleIghs, and farming implements, and
that they have secured the promise Of
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